Homogeneous nucleation from the vapor phase has been a well-defined area of research
for∼ 120 yr. In this paper, we present an overview of the key experimental and theoretical …

Understanding the thermodynamic stability and metastability of materials can help us to, for
example, gauge whether crystalline polymorphs in pharmaceutical formulations are likely to …

Because of the importance of multiphase flows in a wide variety of industries, including
power, petroleum, and numerous processing industries, an understanding of the behavior …

Nucleation is the initial step of every first-order phase transition, and most phase transitions
encountered both in everyday life and industrial processes are of the first-order. Using an …

We present a local order parameter based on the standard Steinhardt–Ten Wolde approach
that is capable both of tracking and of driving homogeneous ice nucleation in simulations of …

Various theoretical and experimental methods for studying nucleation are considered. Since
theoretical methods have fundamental limitations, information is gained from experimental …

The principles of statistical mechanics have been used to develop a theory of the nucleation
of a phase transition, but a number of subtle questions remain and are highlighted in this …

A combination of the aggregation-volume-bias Monte Carlo algorithm and the umbrella
sampling technique is applied to investigate homogeneous vapor–liquid nucleation. This …

This chapter focuses on a frontier for molecular simulation: nucleation of solute precipitates
from solution. The chapter refers to simulations of solute precipitate nucleation with a fixed …

Ten independent quenches of a gas of 40 000 Lennard-Jones particles are followed until
the systems exhibit droplet growth. The cluster distributions and the kinetics are determined …